Elvedon
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Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
Heather Lanier
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It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
Anne de Marcken
16Elvedon commented on Elvedon's review of The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop
I keep trying to enjoy cozy fiction and keep failing. Even when the coziness is drenched in grief, my mind wanders incessantly. As the cat nods and the two-dimensional girl in a pinafore monologues about books and miracles, all I can think is, "It's a short book. Surely she'll stop soon..."
This feels like a character flaw.
Should I bomb the rating as a true reflection of my experience? Or be gentle with my rating as an aspiration - "fake it till you make it" - pretending to enjoy cozy fiction to blend in and maybe, one day, become a cozy reader myself?
I want to access the beauty and comfort others experience with these books. But for now, I'm just stalking the experience.
Sigh. 3 stars, I guess.
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Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
Ruth Kassinger
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Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
Ruth Kassinger
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51Notification of Book Forum Post Removal
I'd appreciate receiving a notification if my book forum post is removed/archived. I recently went looking for an old post that I didn't know had been removed, which was kind of a waste of my time and also a bit confusing. I don't have any issues with my forum posts being removed/archived, but I think receiving a notification along the lines of "Your forum post has been [archived/removed] due to content guideline violations" (with the ability to click on the notification and be taken to the post, ideally) would be helpful for users to keep track of their posts and also to learn from mistakes and craft better posts in the future.
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Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
Ruth Kassinger
8Post from the The Waves forum
I love how this novel gives so much credence to the subconscious and inner life, the unseen being as important as the seen. It really captures the fluidity and vagueness of thoughts, too, unlike novels that make thoughts feel concrete like speech.
This excerpt was especially striking:
It is at that season [of life] too that perfection has a lure. One can learn Spanish, one thinks, by tying a string to the right toe and waking early. One fills up the little compartments of one's engagement book with dinner at eight; luncheon at one-thirty. One has shirts, socks, ties laid out on one's bed.
But it is a mistake, this extreme precision, this orderly and military progress; a convenience, a lie. There is always deep below it, even when we arrive punctually at the appointed time with our white waistcoats and polite formalities, a rushing stream of broken dreams, nursery rhymes, street cries, half-finished sentences and sights - elm trees, willow trees, gardeners sweeping, women writing - that rise and sink even as we hand a lady down to dinner. While one straightens the fork so precisely on the tablecloth a thousand faces mop and mow. There is nothing one can fish up in a spoon; nothing one can call an event. Yet it is alive too and deep, this stream.
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51Notification of Book Forum Post Removal
I'd appreciate receiving a notification if my book forum post is removed/archived. I recently went looking for an old post that I didn't know had been removed, which was kind of a waste of my time and also a bit confusing. I don't have any issues with my forum posts being removed/archived, but I think receiving a notification along the lines of "Your forum post has been [archived/removed] due to content guideline violations" (with the ability to click on the notification and be taken to the post, ideally) would be helpful for users to keep track of their posts and also to learn from mistakes and craft better posts in the future.
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Lobster
Guillaume Lecasble
9Elvedon commented on Elvedon's review of Lobster
Write what you know, amirite? 🙃
Marvelously absurd and indelibly unique, this novella is surprisingly well-written and poignant for the genre. Although disturbing at times (I could've done without the incestuous dad in particular), the utter absurdity made me laugh.
Maybe there's a deeper meaning somewhere, but I frankly don't care if there's nothing meaningful beyond the sheer creativity of this story, the pleasure of not knowing where the plot will go. If it were longer, I might've grown tired of the absurdity, but at about 100 pages, it's so short that it felt like taking a cold plunge into nonconformity, mentally invigorating despite the discomfort.
Highly recommend summarizing the plot to someone who hasn't read the book. It's so ridiculous that you'll probably end up smiling and laughing which, in my opinion, makes it a worthwhile read in itself.
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Write what you know, amirite? 🙃
Marvelously absurd and indelibly unique, this novella is surprisingly well-written and poignant for the genre. Although disturbing at times (I could've done without the incestuous dad in particular), the utter absurdity made me laugh.
Maybe there's a deeper meaning somewhere, but I frankly don't care if there's nothing meaningful beyond the sheer creativity of this story, the pleasure of not knowing where the plot will go. If it were longer, I might've grown tired of the absurdity, but at about 100 pages, it's so short that it felt like taking a cold plunge into nonconformity, mentally invigorating despite the discomfort.
Highly recommend summarizing the plot to someone who hasn't read the book. It's so ridiculous that you'll probably end up smiling and laughing which, in my opinion, makes it a worthwhile read in itself.
8Elvedon finished a book
Lobster
Guillaume Lecasble
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